Data & Analytics

Driven by enterprise demand for spending visibility, a host of business intelligence vendors are manoeuvring to leverage existing platforms with strategic sourcing-analytics packages.

Business intelligence vendor Cognos Inc. on Monday will announce a new Corporate Performance Management Framework designed to align business strategy with execution across the enterprise while linking people, information and decision-making processes.

Much of the potential promise of Web services lies in the notion of componentizing business processes and tying them together with Web services into new applications that the IT department can whip out almost as soon as a business user comes up with a new idea.

With the goal of giving more bang to bucks spent on Web marketing campaigns, Ottawa-based webHancer Corp. has released a hosted application designed to provide cross-site Web analytics and performance analysis data to corporations.

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Researchers are inventing better ways to find and make sense of information. Computerworld (US) looked at some of this research and found companies perfecting techniques for machine learning, real-time analysis or data flows, distributed data mining and discovery of

ERP and best-in-class application providers must be judged not only by the process models they deliver, but also by their ability to provide sophisticated analytics, according to META Group.

Real-time Web data analysis is gaining acceptance for business decision-making, but the complexity of creating real-time applications still keeps most projects small.